Pula's Roman stones lit anew, an hour down the Adriatic coast

Euronews reported this week that Pula, the Istrian city whose Roman amphitheatre and temple front still stand, has been transformed by a programme of contemporary light art. The broadcaster describes a 2,000-year-old Roman city reworked by present-day artists working in light, in a video report from the Croatian coast.

Pula sits at the southern tip of Istria, roughly an hour by road from Trieste, and its Roman fabric — the Arena among the largest surviving amphitheatres anywhere — has long made it a reference point for the upper Adriatic. Euronews does not present the project as a heritage-restoration story. It presents it as a contemporary intervention onto ancient stone, which is a different claim and a more interesting one.

The report gives no details of the artists involved, the duration of the installation or the institutions behind it, and La Veduta does not supply them. What the wire establishes is the fact of the project and its setting.